Dr. Ross Greene was the last speaker of the CSC Speaker Series held in the Boston area in 2010. He talked about using his collaborative problem solving (CPS) approach with children with behavioral, emotional and social challenges. I find it immensely compassionate and very effective. Dr Green says that kids will do well if they […]
I hear and forget. I see and I remember. I do and I understand. Chinese Proverb Tere Bowen-Irish spoke at the 2010 CSC Speaker Series. She described wonderful teaching ideas for kids, kindergarten through high school. The focus was on using Howard Gardner’s multiple intelligences to help children learn. I was struck by how easy […]
I write a lot about seeing past the labels we give our children to seeing the whole child. However it is not just children we label, we also label and categorize adults. We think it feels easier to know how to interact with another person if we can first place him or her in a category then […]
In most parenting workshops and books about children with special needs labels, time is spent on the idea that parents must mourn the loss of the child they thought they were going to get in order to appreciate the child they did get. It is a constant challenge to take what life gives us and find […]
I came across this anonymous poem that I had kept from a workshop I attended. It is about seeing past the masks people wear and breaking down the walls holding back love. Please Hear What I am not Saying is a very long profoundly moving anonymous poem. While reading it, I could not help but feel […]
As a parent of a child with a special needs label, I struggle to balance using the label to get needed services with refusing to see my child as defective as the label implies. Many parents continually struggle to do this, but most succumb to the relentless message that their child has deficits which need […]
What does it mean to try and promote a shift in awareness in how we educate, treat, care for, parent, and minister to children who receive the special needs labels from the deficit model to the whole child model. Why is this shift in awareness necessary? Are we not trying to help children who have […]
The Universal Grandmother archetype creates the container of fierce Divine Feminine Christ Love for all of humanity. Let us hold the Truth of the Holy Mother Holy Father Sophia God’s all-encompassing love for all her creations till every person can do so for her or himself.
This Facebook group is for both men and women who feel the sacred fire of the Grandmother’s Embrace. Sacred fire is fueled by Divine Love. It cleanses and clears out old paradigms to bring light to darkness and make way for the new. As people of wisdom we’ve come to this place of Christ embodiment through many mystical paths. All are welcome here to share and join in the Oneness of our Divinity in human form. As above so below, as within so without.
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